Winning, I don't think it's reparations. It's about using the status as "the other" to capitalize on anyone who has money.

It's not a good idea to keep anyone in "classes," but to automatically assume that the situation one is in has nothing to do with you and everything to do with someone else is the blame game. Everyone is jealous of everyone else's something, and the grass is always greener, and opportunists use it as an opportunity to loot and claim "what's yours is mine, what's mine is mine."

Nothing is perfect. But have to have some system in place in order to give as many people the opportunities to make it "out" as possible. Pure Socialism = everyone is equally poor = everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others = nobody has any incentive to work.

On the other hand, Pure Capitalism = What's mine is mine and what's yours is yours, and that feeds the class system that has never worked out = poor people have little ability to make it out. Monopolists and large inequality.

“A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.”
― Milton Friedman

“Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.”
– John Maynard Keynes

As Winston Churchill, “It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others that have been tried.” Probably true for Capitalism.....

https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/5...of-capitalism/